I THURSDAY, JULY SO. 1M1 THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS published Every Thursday at ¡»prlngfield. M ne County, Oregon, by THE WILLAMETTE PRESS H. E MAXEY. Editor Knteicd as second class matter. February 1«. l»03 at the poatofttco, Springfield, Oregon. M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E Cne Year In Advance ......... $1.78 Six Months ..................... ..........„ >1.00 Three Month« Single Copy 75e 8c THURSDAY. JULY 3«. 1931 LOAN US AN EXPERT The tax conference held last Wednesday in Eugene at the instance of Governor Meier failed to arrive at any Method whereby taxes in Lane county could be reduced. School, city and county officials said that they were practis- .UK economy and that It took Just SO much money to meet ■“ * - - - - - « fixed j v by ... i law, - _ . ob bonded indebtedness, general * expenditures ligations vote by the people and other necessary expenses. Nobody in this very representative crowd from all parts of the county had any program to offer which would lead to lower taxes. We art* told that Governor Meier has made tax savings at Salem and has employed an efficiency expert to assist him in finding leaks of tax money. Our suggestion is that he loan Lane county one of these smart fellows to frame a model budget and show us exactly where the governor would have us save tax money. There is no doubt but that taxes should be lowered if possible. Mr Meier says they can be cut 20 per cent—but how is what we all want to know. By making up a model budget showing us what expenditures can be eliminated the governor would do U6 a real service. We could then tell whether we indorse the governor s program or not— whether we can do without some things that we now think are necessary in our local government. ----------» llsuul lTlce tiBc Special Price 39c Belding» r,° y|knl Spoyl BY RADFORD MOBLKY M/T0LA«Tra WMMPlCTON M4UAU WASHINGTON. D. C„ July IS— p»*d up on the toot of the bunk herself, filled him with a great No official act of any president N IN T H IN S T A L L M E N T since the war time has been re where he could bring hts full wonder. Bob Reeves, the Kid. was nick Shoah complicated matters too. reived with such genuine approval named Tiger Eye by hie friends Htrenglh Into action, prying and enthusiasm as President down In a the Braxos Brazos country be | pushing at the dirt covered poles having her along Going Io be had or en ugh making a run for lt( with Hoover's recent declaration regard cause his "gun-eye” was yellow 0( (he roof. When his father, "Killer Reeves." Had the rlrt ., <^Vond the l l l l l , ll. be Never planned en having any tug Germany's war debla. In effect ; u died Kid a v ud; o id 1 1 fist in .-i high .r. the n en . rs ote. one else to look after Nellie Mur he propoees Io give all debtor na . cd , the u .. « ■ • « left • « ' Texas to w ,y i continuing his father's feu d s.. . . . of »11 >11 They'd They'd need need an an tlons tlons a a year's year'e extra extra time, time, during during ,, ^J'^.^u/g^Montana v. . ! le « a s I t Ilf Reaching Montana he he Is Is forced forced to to , ¡her« > r> would w.’u I h h ate i»v «van «• en him him When. when , iv l draw on Nate Wheeler, an Irate -t ¡ast. with a final avalanch, ->; „tlwr horse, and they'd need some which no payments will be asked, jj neater. In the exchange of shots aynwIlt. , uch adjustment. If ar — A SERIOUS INDICTMENT Perhaps the most shocking revelation that has been made public for many years is the report by the Wicker- sham commission on crime and punishment of the way in which child offenders under federal laws are misused, neg­ lected, even tortured In various state penal Institutions to which they have been sent by the federal courts. The federal government maintains prisons for adult of­ fenders, but has to turn children who are convicted of vio­ lating Uncle Sam ’s laws over to state and epunty institu­ tions. Investigators report that in some of these prisons they are placed in damp, unsanitary, dark cells, in others mixed with hardened adult criminals, in others practically starved, and in others beaten and otherwise mistreated for the slightest infraction of discipline. If anything can turn a boy or a girl of 15 or so into an habitual criminal, it is prison treatment such as that. These children have done nothing to merit any such treatment. It is only occasionally .to be sure, that a minor comes under the ban of the federal laws. These young pri­ soners have been found guilty of running a stolen auto­ mobile across a state line, which is one of the most recent crimes under federal laws, or of acting as messenger for drug-peddlers, again crossing a state line, or of other inter­ state acts which, while serious enough, do not call for such brutal and heartless treatment as these youngsters get. If the United State government must send children to jail then let the federal government establish their own prison for minors and see that they are humanely treated. BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY The drowning season is now in full swing. From now until school begins again thousands of boys— girls, too, these days— will take unnecessary chances in the water and lose their lives in consequence. That has always been true, and it will always be true. Youth will always take chances, and never listen to advice. Nevertheless, we offer some advice to those who would go swimming. Don’t stay in too long. Half an hour is enough at a stretch. Don’t go into the water immediately after a heavy meal. Don’t keep on swimming after you are tired. Never go swimming alone. * Don’t try to “find bottom.” Don’t get into a canoe unless you can swim. Most of the drowning accidents come from disregard of those simple precautions. If everybody would follow them there would be fewer young lives lost. --------------- • --------------- LOOKING UP District Governor Fred Walker returning from the inter­ national Lions convention at Toronto reports that there was a spirit of optimism among delegates that business was on the up grade and good times were just around the next curve. Business men from every state in the Union and pro­ vince in Canada bring together a pretty good index of the American continent. They are representative of all busi­ ness and Industry as well as all sections of the country. These are signs we may receive with satisfaction. THE FAMILY JOHN T IG E R .& g LA D IE S B LO O M ERS GAINES. M.D BLOOD IMBALANCE Nothing should be appreciated more than perfect circu­ lation of the blood in the body; and, very many times we physicians, meet with variations from normal, which may be called “imbalance,” or engorgements here and there, which may vary from congestions to actual dilatations of the vessels— organic disease. People with hi^; shdontens Stre sufferers in varying de- gree, from blood imbalance. There are great many veins that traverse the abdominal wall and vlscal content there situated. Anything that may cause “rush of blood” to these blood-vessels, produces immediate and very evident effect on structures elsewhere. A big meal is an example —overeating; intense determination Of blood to the Stom- ach and bowel, depleting the brain for the time being, caus­ ing dizziness, cloudy vision, staggering gait, stupor, with heavy feeling throughout the already overfleshed abdomen. The symptoms may amount to a temporary helplessness, a not very enjoyable feeling in elderly persons. 1 believe without accurate figures, that one-fourth of the blood volume may flow in a great tidal-wave to a pond­ erous abdomen, from overexertion, overeating, etc,; and, that this condition reacts heavily upon the heart and brain; of course the veins of such an abdomen become much di­ lated from the constant sagging, making possible, if I may use the term, “abdominal apoplexy.” And here it is that the “tubby” abdomen is a very troublesome luxury. Methods of correction are slow, discouraging, and are seldom persisted in to get the relief possible. Carefully practiced exercises are productive of results. Of course free daily evacuation of the bowel MUST be maintained. Here It 1» that starches in the diet must be cut down to a minimum. Indeed, the died must be just what 1» needed and no more. In chronic cases patients who are short of breath and puff with slight muscular exertion, may wear a well- fitted bandage to support the sagging, indolent organism. I personally know a man who declares he couldn’t "navi­ gate” without his abdominal support, which holds the di­ lated vein» within bounds. Babe mut'| bucket. "I'll tote Babe out and put rived at, to be made only aftei Pete again The girl. In spite of will yuh. Tiger Eye her belief the Kid te an Imported tered. I him awn his hawse " Congress >aa had ample lime to .—. . the - — . . You can't ... thi> proposition from all an Texas killer, warns him the nesters -Rboah -Through root? do vie "Shoah will. Babe. I'll get a ’ Jr the n ^ le n ^ e r e p la n in g an bucket atah directly.” ‘«'rcctly." „ aI„ne. V|| have to help. " dies, The main purpose aimed at bucket “f of * watah attack on the Poole outfit. He "You stay inside. They'll fill yuh •• You've got to have help, and by Mr. Hoover, everybody agrees, m eets Jess Market, a Texan who is I with lead, Kid." ¡you may as well own It first as | Is to suspend payment tong enough boss of the Poole wagon crew and “Nevah will see me. Babe. Gullv ¡asl •• ghe must have thought his to enable private business to return shoots him through both hands. back of the cabin goes to the sp rin g' „||e nce was plain stubbornness, for to Its usual channels. All foreign Nellie's dad la shot from ambush and beyond. I she gave hts arm an Impatient governments have shown agree and the Kid suspects Babe against He poured all of the water in to ' shake. ‘‘You can't do it without ment with the proposal. France ut­ his wish. The latter thinks another tering the only discordant note by nester killed the old man. Babe Is one bucket and set It on a box close me.” wounded by hidden enemies, who to the bunk where Babe could reach "Yo'all can't go In. Miss Murray, demanding that German payments also shoot at Tiger Eye but miss. the dipper If he had to. , They keep awn shootln' at the for damage done Its country by the The Kid pulls Babe back Into the He kindled a small fire In th e ; cabin. Bullets come th'ough the German armies be continued. As cabin and wounds one of the at­ stove, and let the smoke advertise a; doah and window like bees Into a this amounts to >100.000.000 a year, tackers. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY: live man's presence. An old trick .'h ive In a plum thicket.” an Insignificant sum compared with Reckon I could B ab e” but 80 catural * one ,hat 80 ,ar "I wouldn't get hit any quicker ,he tul1 war deb‘- tb* “blectlon Well, damn It do It. then! b* knew “ a,w a”8 worked' than you would." But she let her “"l eiP ‘^ >d ‘° ‘he *d<>P When yuh draw a bead on a nester. Shots from the ridge answered i fingers slip from his arm. "Well. p ' git lm right. There ain't no come- that challenge. The kid waited un- all right— you go on and boost him President H oovers statesmanlike back from a dead man. You got I til the firing ceased, then took his , through, and I'll stay outside and proposal did not c o m e as a surprise 'e m o u t there before yuh. Tiger bucket and crawled out through the case him down to the ground But to .th o se closely Informed on na roof, dropping opposite n o iselessly ; do be careful, won't you— Fob?" tlonal politics. Several days before Eye; any Jury In the world would to the ground and sliding at once "Shoah will—Nellie. I kaln't say the plan was broached. Under Sec make It self-defense. Yuh don’t Into the brushy little gully that what I want to say.” murmured the retary Castle, of Ihe slate depart have to worry a damned bit. Now's sej arated the cabin from the bluff kid helplessly. "I nevah did see a nient. casually told newspapermen your chance—git 'em. kid! Damn it. don't ynh know there's a bounty j behind it. girl like y o 'a ll-" 'ha, the administration's mind was on n esters?'Y ou can collect five He did not feel that he was tak ll“ be lay with his eyes shut not c ose “n k . un hundred apiece for 'em. and no ing any risk, but all his life he had and his face twitching with the > • s. . questions asked! " been drilled in caution, so he went P»«» ° f his wound, and he did not challenged by the white house the "That the price on ole Pappy sneaking along, keeping close undei I,a>' anv attention to the clods of » e r e a >11 o m e a n ' * flirt tnat tin t rattieu t"itf!k*«l uown (Inwn on on m tli»* Iilmt dill uttursne^ on tnti rudj > ct ww Murray, Babe?” I the bank and stopping every few a>rt e m an "Hell it’s the price on any damn feet to listen and peer ahead. He kets. The kid picked up one of the mipeni ng. The president did not Issue his nester! Didn’t the Old Man tell yuh could not see any one, and it was rifles and began shooting at the so quiet that he could hear a lone ridge, rushing from one loophole t o ' statement without testing the tem •o?" "Nevah did tell me th a t Babe. mosquito humming over his head another to make it look as If two per of congress, leading Democrats Mlstah Bell taken my name and Yet he felt a human presence near men were handling the guns. being called in and sounded out as wheah I'm from and all. and asked him. He stood still and waited two The air was thick and acrid with to their attitude Their warm ap right smaht questions. Nevah did minutes, and his quick eyes caught powder smoke. The kid looked at proval of Mr Hoover's Ideas was tell me anything. 'cepting 1 was 10 a quiver in a drooping branch. Some hls ol cover and watching the cabin and «he horse before they could get from me! I order yuh right now to him out of the gully. It would have Baker and Owen D. Young have ex- lay 'em cold! Kill every damn' nest­ the open flat below. pressed their approval of the plan. Yo'all bettah crawl back outa “> be dark when «heY «nade **• er you can draw a bead on, out The kid spoke with N ellie ou‘ «here—she must be Their action has removed the pro- there. Save goin' after 'em in the that bush. valley. Hell, they're out to kill you, an ominous kind of calm. "Come hungry, hiding In the brush since Ject from the partisan field and >----- u Mighty a _ u — — ui——■ « ain't they? You and me both. Glt damn’ careful, lessen yoah hungry t dawn. hungry himself, now e|evated u to broader field of em. or they'll glt you. Olt the fob lead." "e got to thinking about grub. The statesmanship. Another straw that forecast the damned— ” Babe trailed off Into a Immediately the bushes shook as k:d reckoned It would be safe to meaningless mumble. If swept by a sudden gale. A pair have a little picnic out back 0, the announcement was the appearance The kid sighed and gouged at the of legs with blue overall» tucked ™hln in the »hade. Just him and ,n England and Europe 0, Secretary dried mud and tried to think of Into worn riding boots came squirm R“he was all right. Nothing of Treasury Mellon. HI. Informal som ething else. ( Ing backward into view. The kid <1° for him but let him lie quiet audience, with European leader. wag followed by the president's an Why, dammit, you come here reached out and grabbed one and as long as Possible tome« nouncement. The kid wrung out a ___ ________________ _ _ gave it a vicious yank, and the form with the dead list In your pocket.” A curious thing about the project Babe cried suddenly from the bunk. It belonged to came sliding down I «owel In cold water and laid It hls sick brain seizing anew upon and landed pretty much In a heap ¡‘cross Babe s forehead before he is that it came a few days after the his grievance. “I knowed you was j at the edge of the pool. The kid crawled out through the roof with June 15 semi-annual payment of lyin' when you said you found that stepped back, his gun sagging at a Picnic lunch for Nellie. The men war debts had been made. No other map where the wind had blowed hls side and hls other hand going ,,n the ridge would have been sa­ payment Is due until December 18. Congress will meet eight days be lt Into a bush. You was headin' mechanically to claw at hls hat. j tonlshed to see the two sitting fore the winter payment falls due there with their backs to the wall straight for the nesters with that "Ah—excuse me, Miss Murray,” of the beleagued cabin, feasting and will have to act almost Instant­ dead list and you knowed what you he blurted, crimson to his collar, had to do. N ellie Murray. In her father's contentedly on cold sourdough bli- ly If the plan Is to be put Into ef­ “You made a sllp-up with me clothes, and with her father’s gray rllts- coId bacon and dried black- fect this year. Between now and that time It Is certain that business when you said you was goln' to j Stetson tilted over one eye at a berry sauce. men. bankers and farmers will The kid was holding hls mouth W heeler's place because Nate most rakish angle, stared up at him organ between hls cupped hands, bring pressure to bear upon their W heeler come first on the map. I with astonished blue eyes, like yuh. Kid. and I've let yuh make " A b -good evenin'.” the kid watching Nellie from the corner of representatives In congress to out like you're a nice little lad that stammered again. ‘‘I hope yo’all will hls eyes. He played The Mocking make them fall In line behind the Bird” softly. Nellle sat curling the president and nobody expects but wouldn’t kill a m'skeeter. I ain't excuse m I never even heard Pn<1 of her ’’‘‘,low bra,d • b»ently that the plan will go through, prac­ never asked no questions, but 1 --------- . . . . you!” .. _ gasped .. ain't a damn' fool. You had the dead Nellie. "I «nought you were In the ( aroun